Williams on Woods: 'Hatchet hasn't been buried'

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While they walked the fairways together in the same group for the first two rounds last week at Trump International Doral, the former player/caddie duo still has unfinished business, according to Williams.

"I haven't sorted anything out with him," Williams explained during an interview with Australia's Fox Sports. "There's been a lot of ... this, that and the other ... but the hatchet hasn't been buried."

Williams and Woods paired to win 13 majors from 1999-2008, though the Kiwi was abruptly fired during the summer of 2011 while Woods was battling injury. Williams has since looped full-time for Adam Scott, and guided the Aussie to a green jacket in April.

"There's an old saying that time heals all wounds," Williams said in August. "It's been a couple of years and, as I said, time has a way of healing."

His comments this week, though, paint a more unresolved picture.

"It's just personal things and a difference of opinions on how things went down," Williams said Tuesday. "I need to sort that out with him."

Just two days removed from the world No. 1 carding a final-round 78 and watching Patrick Reed - dressed in Woods' trademark red-and-black Sunday attire - triumph at Doral, Williams also shared his view that Woods' once-legendary intimidation factor over the field is not what it used to be.

"I always felt that was a big thing, that guys were intimidated by him," Williams said. "(But) there's no intimidation factor anymore, and that counts a lot."